{"product_id":"playbooks-and-checkbooks-9780691202761","title":"Playbooks and Checkbooks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Szymanski, an economics professor at the Cass Business School at City University in London, tackles the apparent paradoxes of the sports business in the head-on style of an N.F.L. linebacker. . . . He displays an impressive global knowledge of sports ranging from basketball and cricket to tennis and rugby, and provides a wealth of revealing financial information as well as entertaining sports trivia.\"\u003cb\u003e---Harry Hurt III, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePlaybooks and Checkbooks\u003c\/i\u003e is not a snoozer but a sleeper; equal parts eminently readable and wholly fascinating. . . . Szymanski's non-elaborated notion places his book with the best art history, for art also is a creature of its time.\"\u003cb\u003e---David M. Gordon, \u003ci\u003eThe Browser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Szymanski covers most relevant topics in modern sports economic theory in a very elegant and in my opinion comprehensible fashion. Personally, I really enjoyed his explanation of wage formation in sports labour markets, and his (sociological\/historical) views on the development of sport as business. . . . It is well written, well structured and sometimes even funny.\"\u003cb\u003e---Kjetil K. Haugen, \u003ci\u003eNordic Sport Studies Forum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403887714647,"sku":"9780691202761","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691202761.jpg?v=1730484807","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/playbooks-and-checkbooks-9780691202761","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}